I should begin by saying, in case I haven't yet, that The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie isn't at the library in my city, but I just now remembered that the library system is now province-wide, so I've requested it as of a few minutes ago. As soon as it comes in, I promise I'll read it as fast as I can and get the review posted. Fortunately it looks like it's really short. In the meantime, I'm building up "R book" reviews, although I have a clever plan for the R25 book review that I hopefully won't flake out on, but I won't tell you about it yet, just in case.
In case you're curious about what might be coming up as far as the random book reviews go, in a fit of me being myself the other day, I decided to add all the books I have on my bookshelf that I haven't read yet to my "to-read" pile on Goodreads. I'm really picky about ISBNs over there, but the fact is that a lot of my inherited books are so old that there are no ISBNs printed on them, so I had to be lazy with a few. I also have a bunch of French books that I'm pretty sure don't exist anywhere in Goodreads at all, and that I'm not interested in adding. Anyway, there are over thirty books on that last, which at my current reading rate will take me about two years to read. Argh!
Basically April consisted of preparations for the con of choice, which, now that it's over, I can tell you was the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, which I'll definitely be posting about as soon as I can throw something together over my upcoming lunch hours at work and/or next weekend at a coffee shop. I also finally finished watching The X-Files, got through season 3 of Being Human U.K., and watched the first season of Misfits (which I'm happy to recommend on the strength of Iwan Rheon's performance alone).
Also, I did my taxes, watched The Incredible Hulk as the last missing piece of the preparation puzzle for The Avengers, and I'm not even sure exactly what else. As I mentioned in my previous post, I won't have any internet next month, so presumably I'll have a lot more to write about when the end of it rolls around.
In Which I Apologize In Advance
In case you all hadn't noticed already, I'm basically terrible at keeping up with this blog, and for the next one or two months, it's only going to get worse. You may remember that a couple of years ago around this time, posts that up 'til then had been going up on a weekly basis dropped off abruptly (or rather didn't, now that I'm looking into it a bit more closely--I had a much better buffer back then) when I ended up getting a job and moving.
At the end of next month, I'm going to be moving again. Recognizing that I'm an internet addict (funny that doesn't translate to updating this blog on a regular basis, isn't it?) I took the extraordinary measure of actually cancelling my internet an entire month in advance, so that I'll be packed and ready to go when June 1 rolls around, instead of scrambling like mad in the final days.
I don't think that the blog will be completely quiet until the end of June, or anything, but I definitely am not going to be worrying about updating it at all until I'm settled in to the new place.
Try not to get into too much trouble in the meantime, and don't stop RSSing me just yet!
At the end of next month, I'm going to be moving again. Recognizing that I'm an internet addict (funny that doesn't translate to updating this blog on a regular basis, isn't it?) I took the extraordinary measure of actually cancelling my internet an entire month in advance, so that I'll be packed and ready to go when June 1 rolls around, instead of scrambling like mad in the final days.
I don't think that the blog will be completely quiet until the end of June, or anything, but I definitely am not going to be worrying about updating it at all until I'm settled in to the new place.
Try not to get into too much trouble in the meantime, and don't stop RSSing me just yet!
Current Distractions, Belated March 2012 Edition
Happy Easter everyone!
My apologies for how long it's been since the last post. I was originally going to briefly discuss religion vs. secularism here, but I've decided that I don't really have the time or energy right now to give that topic the attention it deserves, so maybe I'll save it for Christmas instead.
On that note, I'll just tell you what I've been doing up to now instead of (well, in addition to, obviously) reading the books I'm supposed to be reading. As usual, if you pay attention to my blatherings on Twitter, you'll know a lot of this already.
First: I finally finished Uncharted 2 this weekend! I also finally finished the bulk of my costume for this year's con of choice. I spent a lot of evenings puzzling through really confusing patterns instructions (well, confusing for my extremely amateur skill level) and the final result actually doesn't look half bad. I listen to podcasts while crafting, mostly In Our Time, although I'd be happy to get suggestions of others. Anyway, now that that's done I kind of want to make myself something else...
Being Human UK is on Netflix right now, and I decided to give it a shot one night because The X-Files is almost unbearably boring in its last two seasons and I needed a break and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I'm almost done the third season right now.
Speaking of The X-Files I am TWO EPISODES FROM THE END. It's not as exciting as if there was an actual, you know, coherent overarching plot, but it's been a good run. I don't understand it now, but when I was younger I couldn't tell the difference between Nicholas Lea and Adam Baldwin.
My apologies for how long it's been since the last post. I was originally going to briefly discuss religion vs. secularism here, but I've decided that I don't really have the time or energy right now to give that topic the attention it deserves, so maybe I'll save it for Christmas instead.
On that note, I'll just tell you what I've been doing up to now instead of (well, in addition to, obviously) reading the books I'm supposed to be reading. As usual, if you pay attention to my blatherings on Twitter, you'll know a lot of this already.
First: I finally finished Uncharted 2 this weekend! I also finally finished the bulk of my costume for this year's con of choice. I spent a lot of evenings puzzling through really confusing patterns instructions (well, confusing for my extremely amateur skill level) and the final result actually doesn't look half bad. I listen to podcasts while crafting, mostly In Our Time, although I'd be happy to get suggestions of others. Anyway, now that that's done I kind of want to make myself something else...
Being Human UK is on Netflix right now, and I decided to give it a shot one night because The X-Files is almost unbearably boring in its last two seasons and I needed a break and I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I'm almost done the third season right now.
Speaking of The X-Files I am TWO EPISODES FROM THE END. It's not as exciting as if there was an actual, you know, coherent overarching plot, but it's been a good run. I don't understand it now, but when I was younger I couldn't tell the difference between Nicholas Lea and Adam Baldwin.
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